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SAG Awards 2012: Viola Davis wins best female actor

January 29, 2012 | 6:53pm

Viola Davis won the SAG Award on Sunday night for female actor in a leading film role for her starring turn in “The Help.”

The 46-year-old Davis also just earned her first lead actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Southern domestic Aibileen Clark in the hit adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel set in the 1960s.